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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Robert Joyner's divorce affect him?

2. What does Q plan in which he has been inspired by his time with Margo?

3. What are Q and his friends considered in high school?

4. What does Q hope Margo chose him to do?

5. What does Margo have Q do with a camera?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Q's conversation with Otis Warren.

2. What is the parting scene like between Margo and Q at the end of the night?

3. Describe Radar and his relationship to Q.

4. How does Margo offer to reward Q and what is his response?

5. Why do Q and Ben take off the hinges of Margo's door and what do they find?

6. What do Margo and Q do at the SunTrust Building?

7. What does Q ask Margo to do after the Sea World adventure and how does he feel?

8. Why are things chaotic at school and what are a couple incidents that happen as a result?

9. Describe Ben Starlling and his relationship to Q.

10. What does Margo do to wreck vengeance on Jase?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Paper Towns.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Paper Towns. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Paper Towns. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the characters of Margo and Quentin. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.

2. Compare/contrast the characters of Ben and Radar. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

3. Compare/contrast Margo and Quentin's parents. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which ones seem more of a well-rounded character?

4. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in Paper Towns help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.

Essay Topic 3

Margo hates everything normal about herself and feels no one around her is authentic. She seems to be a person fully alienated and critical of her society and her social group. She does not fit into any of the social groups even though she is admired by her peers.

1. What do you think a student should do if she/he doesn't fit into the crowd at school? Use examples from Paper Towns and your life to support your answer.

2. What do you think makes a student stick out from others? Use examples from Paper Towns and your life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Margo feels different from her peers? Use examples from Paper Towns and your life to support your answer.

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